Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School of Business studied the role of suppliers in product innovation and found that it is beneficial to shift suppliers when moving forward with an innovative product. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 14, 2010

But you’ll actually get more done if you concentrate on one thing at a time. In this video I explain why focusing your attention is more productive than trying to handle multiple priorities simultaneously. I'm convinced that the freedom to focus on one task at a time is better for both us and for our customers.

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Meyer Video Blog eBook 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. While many startups fail because of poor execution, I would argue that the majority fail because their product has no market.

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Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. Set timeframes and milestones that eventually amount to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Each and every iteration is supposed to produce a potentially shippable product increment. Make sure top management understands this.

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Agility Planning Project Decentralization 34

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Companies across the globe are faced with new competitive threats, changing market dynamics, new technology disruption and evolving customer needs, and the pressure is on for companies to be able to sense and respond to those changes and deliver better products and services to customers, faster.

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Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.

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IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. Develop personal, habitual agility. Develop team agility. So, take the initiative. ” Teach and coach others.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. Take a company like Airbnb.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. Create incentive systems for salespeople to sell frugal products.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Called "Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs," it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. Could it really be that businesses could become more productive and yet not find themselves with excess workers standing around? What a conundrum! Well of course we know it is not one.

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Physical product customizers such as Nike iD and Moto Maker have earned strong customer followings, but they’re still closer to “designed for me” than the “designed by me” experience we’ve been promised. This shift is being brought about by three developments.

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Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc., Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. Once the project was under way, it became clear that to hit the launch date, the production ramp-up phase would have to be reduced. This could be achieved only by taking shortcuts in the production validation and evaluation processes.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. Once the project was under way, it became clear that to hit the launch date, the production ramp-up phase would have to be reduced. This could be achieved only by taking shortcuts in the production validation and evaluation processes.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Faster times to market, greater flexibility on the way there, and greater focus on the customer — common results of a successful lean implementation — are all positives. New ways of thinking about opportunities must be developed by the board as a team. Ask the right questions.

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Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

But Palmer Luckey, now 20, is taking his own sweet time to market — which he’s free to do since his funding comes strings-free from Kickstarter. Right now, he’s releasing it only as a developers’ kit. “It Reporters and gamers are clamoring for it. WE’LL LEAVE THE LIGHTS ON FOR YOU.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Document Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

We were in a meeting to review the roadmap for the company's new product. I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. Maybe the company was (ahem) finally going to make products that were competitive. Some long seconds passed.

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CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. The firm has developed a sensing system that captures light hitting the camera from a variety of angles, not just what strikes a plane set behind a small aperture.

Contract Manufacturing 11

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. ” Hiring for Growth.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. At the same time, these companies are using foreign expertise to bolster their core business as well.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. More products at more pricepoints" is their name for this strategy.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

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Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Our own research has further looked at the problem.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Everyone understood that being the flagship client for startups at this stage in their development would attract top startups and give BMW first access to cutting-edge technology, product customization advantages, time-to-market, and pricing, while reducing the risk profile of traditional corporate venturing.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Sales and product quotas, growth targets, and mission statements are widespread counterfeits. One McKinsey study of 2,135 executives revealed that most corporate strategies “developed idiosyncratically to their organizations, people, and markets,” and don’t pass more than three out of 10 core tests for viable strategy.

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Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

They ignore the realities of how global manufacturing now works — how it has evolved into a complex network of interlinked factories that together build many of the products sold today. Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. A big reason is technological complexity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. In that time, I have developed a simple framework that I call the “Hierarchy of Purpose.”

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